Rick Riordan is my favorite, but I like a lot of different authors. Tolkien C.S. Lewis (Narnia) and Ursula LeGuin (especially The Wizard of Earthsea) are some other good classic fantasy authors.
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I really like D&D, especially Ravenloft, Exandria and the Upside Down from Stranger Things. My pronouns are she/they (genderfae).
This is partly just me (I tend not to have a favorite anything), but also, I think in terms of stories, not authors (it was hard for me to just do a list of authors who inspired Wyrlde — and that came after I reached 250 books in a list and realized it was going to take a lot more).
rather annoying, I know.
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Look at what you've done. You spoiled it. You have nobody to blame but yourself. Go sit and think about your actions.
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For nostalgia, Rick Riordan. The Percy Jackson series was formative in getting me interested in fantasy.
For current reading, Brandon Sanderson. I haven't kept up with his most recent books, but the Stormlight Archive has some of my favorite characters from all of fantasy.
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So, after several months of break and starting a campaign, I have finally started to figure out more about my dragons, lol.
It is a lot. I wanted to use a particular structure, since Dragons are extremely magical, very mystical, but still part of the core concept that I had about the indigenous life of the planet. there are Dragons, Drakes, Wyrms, and Wyverns.
Dragons and Drakes have four limbs, two wings, and a single tail. Wyrms have three tails, four limbs, are serpentine, and no wings. Wyverns have two wings, two limbs, and three tails.
Drakes, Wyrms, and Wyverns are “normal” animals, in comparison to Dragons, who are not normal.
They molt and they cocoon. Wyvern to Wyrm to Drake, they go through a rapid evolution and change. Drakes then have a chance of become a dragon (assuming that one of the Dragons has passed on).
There are seven broad categories of Dragons: Sun, Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal, Water, and Moon. Within each category there are five types, and within each type there are three individuals. So I have a lot more dragons that I expected, to start with, and they are more closely related tot he western concepts of an “elemental” than existing D&D dragons — a wood dragon is made of wood, a fire dragon is made of fire, with the Sun and Moon being Light and Darkness, respectively.
Still might change as I am focused mostly on how they interact with the biomes at this moment, and that ma change a lot of things (have to account for their appetites, lol).
Dragons change through each of the seven categories — so a Sun dragon will become a wood dragon will become a fire dragon will become an earth dragon, etc. THe underling goal is to combine the two forms of the elements (western and Eastern) and come out with something quite different.
It being the year of the Wood Dragon and all, I think it is important.
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Nice. I've always found Dnd dragons a little bland. I prefer to think of dragons on a case by case basis. Mine can't be fit into nice categories like red, blue, green, or metallic, chromatic, and gem. Each dragon is its own supernatural individual that is distinct from any other dragon. Of course there are "lesser" dragons that have more clearly defined species like drakes, lyndworms, tatzelworms, hydras, and wyverns.
Nice. I've always found Dnd dragons a little bland. I prefer to think of dragons on a case by case basis. Mine can't be fit into nice categories like red, blue, green, or metallic, chromatic, and gem. Each dragon is its own supernatural individual that is distinct from any other dragon. Of course there are "lesser" dragons that have more clearly defined species like drakes, lyndworms, tatzelworms, hydras, and wyverns.
If you can get your hands on it, the 3.5e Draconomicon would like a word with you. It really brought dragons to life for me.
If I had to pick one, I'd go with Tolkien. My teacher reading The Hobbit to the 4th grade class I was in changed my life.
Other authors I'd rank very high - are Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman (for Dragonlance, but also the Death Gate Cycle, the Darksword Trilogy - although that last book went side ways..., the Dragonships series was incredible!) The two paired together are an incredible force.
But also C.S. Lewis (Narnia), Lloyd Alexander, Richard A. Knaak, Richard Adams, the list really goes on and on.
quick scan of my little pad where I am laying out the finer details and organization. Includes a lot of “associations” and linkages, if you can handle my scrawls, and gives the structure for how each phase of a dragon’s life includes three molts — each is a period of 25 years, making Dragons the longest lived beings on the planet (525 years for full growth, with another 475 years at Moon stage).
This lets me have a really interesting structure for dragon culture, which will be very important in a couple years for my current campaign.
dragons are the only sapient and sentient indigenous species, affected by both the terraforming and then by the entry of magic into the world. There are very few old dragons, who rule over their clutches. Dragons have an eidetic ancestral memory as well — so they remember the coming of people to the world, and their own climb to awareness, and what the world looked like once upon a time.
In other news, I am writing up the intro adventure still, alongside rewrites of spells, and adjusting the assorted special,abilities to work with that new system.
i may have to,add another session — my folks are loving the new stuff I have set up, and how I have poured everything I know about this darn game into creating a pretty crazy world.
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Those are some cool dragons! I might just steal some of those ideas. But that gives me an idea for a...
Question Of The Day: Have you taken a boring DND monster (5e dragons are very boring, IMO) and made it cool? If so, why do you think the existing monster is boring and how did you change it?
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Question Of The Day: Have you taken a boring DND monster (5e dragons are very boring, IMO) and made it cool? If so, why do you think the existing monster is boring and how did you change it?
Those are some cool dragons! I might just steal some of those ideas. But that gives me an idea for a...
Question Of The Day: Have you taken a boring DND monster (5e dragons are very boring, IMO) and made it cool? If so, why do you think the existing monster is boring and how did you change it?
Nah, I tend to make homebrew monsters from scratch, and tear off pieces of other monsters as I go, rather than starting from a template.
I’m currently running a campaign for a few friends, and they all want DnD monsters as pets. I told them if they can defeat a monster, I’ll let them have it as a pet, but they said that the monster would just die if they beat it. Now I’m trying to make a kind of pokeball esque amulet that absorbs a creatures essence, but I need help balancing it. Any suggestions?
A respectable choice. For me it’s Ursula K. Le Guin.
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The Bloody Barnacle | The Gut | The Athene Crusader | The Jewel of Atlantis
It is so hard to choose just one, but I think it would be N. D. Wilson
Rick Riordan is my favorite, but I like a lot of different authors. Tolkien C.S. Lewis (Narnia) and Ursula LeGuin (especially The Wizard of Earthsea) are some other good classic fantasy authors.
I really like D&D, especially Ravenloft, Exandria and the Upside Down from Stranger Things. My pronouns are she/they (genderfae).
David Weber
David Drake
John Birmingham
Jim Butcher
Brandon Sanderson (stop printing my ideas in your novels!)
Matt Colville (If you haven't read his books, you really should)
"Sooner or later, your Players are going to smash your railroad into a sandbox."
-Vedexent
"real life is a super high CR."
-OboeLauren
"............anybody got any potatoes? We could drop a potato in each hole an' see which ones get viciously mauled by horrible monsters?"
-Ilyara Thundertale
Jim Butcher is great. I also like Wheel of Time and Song of Ice and Fire (the novels Game of Thrones is based on).
I really like D&D, especially Ravenloft, Exandria and the Upside Down from Stranger Things. My pronouns are she/they (genderfae).
‘I can’t answer this, lol.
This is partly just me (I tend not to have a favorite anything), but also, I think in terms of stories, not authors (it was hard for me to just do a list of authors who inspired Wyrlde — and that came after I reached 250 books in a list and realized it was going to take a lot more).
rather annoying, I know.
Only a DM since 1980 (3000+ Sessions) / PhD, MS, MA / Mixed, Bi, Trans, Woman / No longer welcome in the US, apparently
Wyrlde: Adventures in the Seven Cities
.-=] Lore Book | Patreon | Wyrlde YT [=-.
An original Setting for 5e, a whole solar system of adventure. Ongoing updates, exclusies, more.
Not Talking About It / Dubbed The Oracle in the Cult of Mythology Nerds
Oh yeah... she's ^ one of my favorite authors but I haven't gotten my hands on any of her novels yet.
And that Tawmis dude. He can write! And draw!
"Sooner or later, your Players are going to smash your railroad into a sandbox."
-Vedexent
"real life is a super high CR."
-OboeLauren
"............anybody got any potatoes? We could drop a potato in each hole an' see which ones get viciously mauled by horrible monsters?"
-Ilyara Thundertale
Terry Pratchett.
I don't have just one favorite author, but reading China Miéville changed my creative thought process. I'm now a weirder person than I once was.
Neil Gaiman, with Terry Pratchett as a secondary.
Look at what you've done. You spoiled it. You have nobody to blame but yourself. Go sit and think about your actions.
Don't be mean. Rudeness is a vicious cycle, and it has to stop somewhere. Exceptions for things that are funny.
Go to the current Competition of the Finest 'Brews! It's a cool place where cool people make cool things.
How I'm posting based on text formatting: Mod Hat Off - Mod Hat Also Off (I'm not a mod)
For nostalgia, Rick Riordan. The Percy Jackson series was formative in getting me interested in fantasy.
For current reading, Brandon Sanderson. I haven't kept up with his most recent books, but the Stormlight Archive has some of my favorite characters from all of fantasy.
Please check out my homebrew, I would appreciate feedback:
Spells, Monsters, Subclasses, Races, Arcknight Class, Occultist Class, World, Enigmatic Esoterica forms
So, after several months of break and starting a campaign, I have finally started to figure out more about my dragons, lol.
It is a lot. I wanted to use a particular structure, since Dragons are extremely magical, very mystical, but still part of the core concept that I had about the indigenous life of the planet. there are Dragons, Drakes, Wyrms, and Wyverns.
Dragons and Drakes have four limbs, two wings, and a single tail. Wyrms have three tails, four limbs, are serpentine, and no wings. Wyverns have two wings, two limbs, and three tails.
Drakes, Wyrms, and Wyverns are “normal” animals, in comparison to Dragons, who are not normal.
They molt and they cocoon. Wyvern to Wyrm to Drake, they go through a rapid evolution and change. Drakes then have a chance of become a dragon (assuming that one of the Dragons has passed on).
There are seven broad categories of Dragons: Sun, Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal, Water, and Moon. Within each category there are five types, and within each type there are three individuals. So I have a lot more dragons that I expected, to start with, and they are more closely related tot he western concepts of an “elemental” than existing D&D dragons — a wood dragon is made of wood, a fire dragon is made of fire, with the Sun and Moon being Light and Darkness, respectively.
Still might change as I am focused mostly on how they interact with the biomes at this moment, and that ma change a lot of things (have to account for their appetites, lol).
Dragons change through each of the seven categories — so a Sun dragon will become a wood dragon will become a fire dragon will become an earth dragon, etc. THe underling goal is to combine the two forms of the elements (western and Eastern) and come out with something quite different.
It being the year of the Wood Dragon and all, I think it is important.
Only a DM since 1980 (3000+ Sessions) / PhD, MS, MA / Mixed, Bi, Trans, Woman / No longer welcome in the US, apparently
Wyrlde: Adventures in the Seven Cities
.-=] Lore Book | Patreon | Wyrlde YT [=-.
An original Setting for 5e, a whole solar system of adventure. Ongoing updates, exclusies, more.
Not Talking About It / Dubbed The Oracle in the Cult of Mythology Nerds
Nice. I've always found Dnd dragons a little bland. I prefer to think of dragons on a case by case basis. Mine can't be fit into nice categories like red, blue, green, or metallic, chromatic, and gem. Each dragon is its own supernatural individual that is distinct from any other dragon. Of course there are "lesser" dragons that have more clearly defined species like drakes, lyndworms, tatzelworms, hydras, and wyverns.
If you can get your hands on it, the 3.5e Draconomicon would like a word with you. It really brought dragons to life for me.
If I had to pick one, I'd go with Tolkien. My teacher reading The Hobbit to the 4th grade class I was in changed my life.
Other authors I'd rank very high - are Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman (for Dragonlance, but also the Death Gate Cycle, the Darksword Trilogy - although that last book went side ways..., the Dragonships series was incredible!) The two paired together are an incredible force.
But also C.S. Lewis (Narnia), Lloyd Alexander, Richard A. Knaak, Richard Adams, the list really goes on and on.
Flattery will get you everywhere.
Although I can't draw. I dabble. lol
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So, an example of how much thought is going into my dragons, lol.
quick scan of my little pad where I am laying out the finer details and organization. Includes a lot of “associations” and linkages, if you can handle my scrawls, and gives the structure for how each phase of a dragon’s life includes three molts — each is a period of 25 years, making Dragons the longest lived beings on the planet (525 years for full growth, with another 475 years at Moon stage).
This lets me have a really interesting structure for dragon culture, which will be very important in a couple years for my current campaign.
dragons are the only sapient and sentient indigenous species, affected by both the terraforming and then by the entry of magic into the world. There are very few old dragons, who rule over their clutches. Dragons have an eidetic ancestral memory as well — so they remember the coming of people to the world, and their own climb to awareness, and what the world looked like once upon a time.
In other news, I am writing up the intro adventure still, alongside rewrites of spells, and adjusting the assorted special,abilities to work with that new system.
i may have to,add another session — my folks are loving the new stuff I have set up, and how I have poured everything I know about this darn game into creating a pretty crazy world.
Only a DM since 1980 (3000+ Sessions) / PhD, MS, MA / Mixed, Bi, Trans, Woman / No longer welcome in the US, apparently
Wyrlde: Adventures in the Seven Cities
.-=] Lore Book | Patreon | Wyrlde YT [=-.
An original Setting for 5e, a whole solar system of adventure. Ongoing updates, exclusies, more.
Not Talking About It / Dubbed The Oracle in the Cult of Mythology Nerds
Those are some cool dragons! I might just steal some of those ideas. But that gives me an idea for a...
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Nah, I tend to make homebrew monsters from scratch, and tear off pieces of other monsters as I go, rather than starting from a template.
I’m currently running a campaign for a few friends, and they all want DnD monsters as pets. I told them if they can defeat a monster, I’ll let them have it as a pet, but they said that the monster would just die if they beat it. Now I’m trying to make a kind of pokeball esque amulet that absorbs a creatures essence, but I need help balancing it. Any suggestions?
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